The lease rate is normally very low because the world's central banks have a lot to lend.

So a high lease rate can shift market dynamics.

If lease rates hold and the price of gold rises, the bank could do better than expected a few weeks ago.

But by November, the lease rate was back below 1 percent and the price was less than $300.

You will find that our lease rates are more than reasonable.

As a result, they have good sites available at relatively low lease rates.

When lease rates eventually rose, his profits did, too.

With the fare increase, lease rates were frozen at 14 percent above their 1995 levels.

But the owners make more money by maintaining the current number of drivers at the prevailing lease rates, he said.

With the higher lease rates, the commission calculates, drivers would keep almost $6,000 of that.